Conversational Agents
This is an online repository for articles and resources related to Conversational Agents(CA).
Table of Contents
Articles
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Fundamentals
Resources about the fundamental/background knowledge and overviews
- 2019 - Gao - Neural Approaches to Conversational AI
- 2017 - Liu - How NOT To Evaluate Your Dialogue System: An Empirical Study of Unsupervised Evaluation Metrics for Dialogue Response Generation
- 2017 - Novikova- Why We Need New Evaluation Metrics for NLG
- 2019 - See - What makes a good conversation? How controllable attributes affect human judgments
- 2019 - Dathathri - Plug and Play Language Models: A Simple Approach to Controlled Text Generation
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Task-Oriented CAs
Resources on the Task-oriented approach towards CA (aka. chatbots)
- 2013- Young- POMDP-Based Statistical Spoken Dialog Systems: A Review
- 2017 - Bordes - Learning End-to-End Goal-Oriented Dialog
- 2017 - Mrkšić - Neural Belief Tracker: Data-Driven Dialogue State Tracking
- 2019 - Rastogi - Towards Scalable Multi-domain Conversational Agents: The Schema-Guided Dialogue Dataset
- 2020 - Uber AI- Plato Dialogue System: A Flexible Conversational AI Research Platform
- 2020 - Lair - User-in-the-loop Adaptive Intent Detection for Instructable Digital Assistant
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Open domain CAs
Resources on open-domain CA (aka. chitchat)
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2015 - Shang - Neural Responding Machine for Short-Text Conversation
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2015 - Shang - Neural Responding Machine for Short-Text Conversation
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2016 - Li - A Diversity-Promoting Objective Function for Neural Conversation Models
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2016 - Serban - A Hierarchical Latent Variable Encoder-Decoder Model for Generating Dialogues
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2017 - Dhingra - Linguistic Knowledge as Memory for Recurrent Neural Networks
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2018 - Ghazvininejad - A Knowledge-Grounded Neural Conversation Model
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2018 - Zhang - Learning to Control the Specificity in Neural Response Generation
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2018 - Zhang - Personalizing Dialogue Agents: I have a dog, do you have pets too?
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2018 - Lewis - Deal or No Deal? End-to-End Learning for Negotiation Dialogues
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2019 - Kocijan - A Surprisingly Robust Trick for Winograd Schema Challenge
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2019 - Merity - Single Headed Attention RNN: Stop Thinking With Your Head
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2019 - Zhang - DialoGPT: Large-Scale Generative Pre-training for Conversational Response Generation
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Filling the gap
Resources on recent attempts to fill the gap between the two aforementioned approaches
- 2017 - Eric&Manning - A Copy-Augmented Sequence-to-Sequence Architecture Gives Good Performance on Task-Oriented Dialogue
- 2019 - Wu - Global-to-local Memory Pointer Networks for Task-Oriented Dialogue
- 2018 - Manuvinakurike - Conversational Image Editing: Incremental Intent Identification in a New Dialogue Task